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Plant Types To Attract Wildlife

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July 13, 2013

Planting To Attract Deer and Other Game To Your Hunting Property

Nothing attracts animals quite like food does.An online nurserywith cattails and other wildlife attracting plants can help yo on your journey. Short of the urge to reproduce the instinct for an animal to keep itself fed is the most powerful, so planting a food plot on your hunting property is sure fire way to increase your chances of bagging some game this hunting season. It is, however, slightly more complicated than just sprinkling some seeds on the ground. There are different types of garden plants you can buy that will best attract a given animal. The place in which you plant is equally important to your success. As a landowner, you should always remember that food plots are an addition too, not a substitution for; responsible land management practices to maintain the game animal population over a large area. Food plots will only serve to lure game to a very specific area for a short amount of time.

when in the planning stages of creating a food plot the two most important things to consider are the type(s) of game you intend to hunt and the place you intend to put it. Deer, for example, have some special considerations. The home range of a buck is about a square mile, and about 200 acres for a doe. They are not attracted food plots outside of their range. This is why your property already needs to be a suitable habitat, food plots will not attract game from miles away. For this same reason, it is better to disperse multiple smaller food plots around your property than to have one very large one. With multiple plots you could be spanning multiple home ranges. In general, deer are in their most dire nutritional straits in late winter and early spring, and you should consider this when choosing garden plants for your plot.

As far as other game animals go, pick plants to suite them as well. You should ideally have a mixture of low lying brush, shrubs and trees to best attract the largest number of different animals. The specific plants to buy are very hard to reccomend given the vastly different climates that this can take place. A good rule of thumb is that the best plants for animals to forage from are the ones that already exist in your area naturally. They should also be hardy, and ideally require little maintenance.